WWDC is without a doubt the Apple event I look forward to the most in the year, it’s always exciting and nerve-racking to see what Apple have up their sleeve for both users and developers with all of the updates to the operating systems across the Mac, iPad and iPhone.
My WWDC 2025 Wish List
• Refreshed UI - MacOS.
• MacOS style Menu Bar - iPadOS.
• Better window management - iPadOS.
• Stage Manager - iPhone (external monitor).
• Workspaces - VisionOS.
• Access iPhone - VisionOS.
• 0% Developer commission for smaller companies like ours.
I hope to support RIVE animation, which has an excellent animation production editor, ultra small file size, and outstanding performance. I hope you can integrate support for linking. riv files
“Hope to support RIVE animation, rive has an excellent animation editor, ultra-small file size, and excellent performance. Hope you can integrate support for .riv file linkage”
I was primarily excited about iPadOS, and it has almost fulfilled all my expectations, except for the ability to run macOS native apps on iPad. This would allow me to use Blocs for Mac on an iPad.
Was hoping since we were jumping 11 version numbers for macOS that we would be at Tony Stark level computing or at least Minority Report cereal eating level.
Sadly macOS 26 is just fluff and the future still awaits us. Hopefully AI (not Apple’s ) can help with flying cars, time travel, teleporting, holographic computing without wearing Apple Vision ski goggles, etc.,
Yes, I believe from the end-user’s perspective, it’s already there.
In my case, I’m dreaming of being able to switch to a Mac mini at home and carry an iPad Pro with me even when traveling for weeks, and still be completely confident that I can create and release the new version of the Minimalist Library, create advanced templates, or something more complex like that. Perhaps it’s already possible.
In any case, it looks like my 2018 iPad Pro still supports iPadOS 26, so I won’t be updating my iPad anytime soon
Ive been playing with the iPadOS Dev Beta (displacement activity ), and so far it’s good for an early beta. It’s snappy. A few weird things to get used to like the traffic light icons. Running on an 13" iPad Air M2. Am I sold on the glass icons… not sure, it might look better once other icons are all updated. I liked stage manager (which is still an option), so some muscle memory to adjust for the new Windowed app thingy.
Only come across one issue, but I am sure there are more.
This ‘Liquid Glass’ effect is about to trend pollute the web like ‘Kia’s Power Tools’ made every image in the mid to late 1990’s have effects they didn’t need.
Yes, everyone who has been using Photoshop for a while knows “Kais Power Tools”. Pure nostalgia. They even have a Wiki entry
You can argue about taste, but it could also be that they were thinking of something. I had a look at the new “Icon Composer” at lunchtime today. Depending on how you use it, it could also create an unagitated, light user interface. I think it would be good, but it could also be a tipping point. We’ll see…
I installed and manage to briefly use iPadOS and iOS 26 today.
The liquid glass needs to be toned down, maybe make it more like my music player.
It’s very cartoonish on the iPhone when you drag controls which I don’t like, it’s far too jiggly.
The multitasking on iPadOS 26 on the other hand is great, that in combination with the fact you can plug into an external monitor, there is a better files app and background tasks too, is likely to lead to many seriously considering replacing portable Macs with an iPad over the next few years. Even more so since intel is phased out next year.
It’s perhaps fitting that they iterated to v26 and perfected Windows Aero (2006) and ‘Transparency’ of OS X Yosemite (2014) in pure Apple fashion.
When I listen to the announcement about “Liquid Glass” they are so smooth talking about the ideal. Though, it’s truly a marketing master class if you know what already existed in the market and what they are trying to make as new. Whats old is new again — Apple perfected that approach all the way back to the GUI and mouse.
IMHO Apple actually missed a great opportunity here with this, but then they would need to drastically perfect batter life.
Have many Intel Macs that can easily be converted to Windows 11, OCLP, Linux, etc.
This Liquid Glass design looks pretty cool though may need a little more frost/blur tweaking in certain areas . Looks like good inspiration for a Glass v2.0 template.
I think I might jump in on the second developer beta with M1 iPad Pro. It would be interesting to see some more uniformly between Blocs for both Mac and iPad as far as features.
) can help with flying cars, time travel, teleporting, holographic computing without wearing Apple Vision ski goggles, etc., 
), and so far it’s good for an early beta. It’s snappy. A few weird things to get used to like the traffic light icons. Running on an 13" iPad Air M2. Am I sold on the glass icons… not sure, it might look better once other icons are all updated. I liked stage manager (which is still an option), so some muscle memory to adjust for the new Windowed app thingy.